They were also more likely to have had what's known as a Type 2 heart attack, which is caused by something other
than a blocked artery.
Not exact matches
Women who have a cardiac arrest are less likely
than men to receive potentially life - saving procedures such as angiography to look for
blocked coronary
arteries or angioplasty to open them, according to new research in Journal of the American Heart Association, the Open Access Journal of the American Heart Association / American Stroke Association.
An angiogram showed that one coronary
artery was more
than 90 percent
blocked and he needed a bypass.
The DANAMI - 3 iPOST trial, which took place in Denmark, included 1,234 patients (average age 61; 79 percent male) with acute STEMI symptoms of less
than 12 hours» duration who were randomly assigned to receive standard angioplasty or ischemic postconditioning prior to stent implantation in the
blocked artery.
Angioplasty is performed to clear
blocked arteries in more
than 1 million people in the United States each year.
More
than 100 years ago a German pathologist named Virchow discovered that cholesterol was to be found in the
artery walls of people that died from diseases like heart attacks, in which their
arteries were
blocked.